Medicine: Cure-Alls

So long as foolish people with pains have hopes of feeling better,
quacks and charlatans will flourish. Last week Associate Commissioner
Charles W. Crawford described some of the cure-alls that the U.S. Food
& Drug Administration has found on the U.S. market in the past year.
Among them:

¶ A vapor-bath system which sprays the bather with various chemicals.
Price: $2,200. It was represented as effective for diabetes, abscess of
the lung, decay of the jawbones, blood poisoning, a long list of other
ailments,